Authority Quotes · Page 39

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

— Napoleon Hill

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

— L. Tom Perry

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

— John Wycliffe

“When Jesus tells us to give all we have...we don't have authority to decline. We are not our own; we have no…

— Chris Tiegreen

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

— Donald Rumsfeld

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

— Richard Hamming

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

— Neil Postman

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

— Prince Charles

What has changed immensely in America since 2017, the first year of the Trump administration, is the relentless demonization of nonwhite immigrants,…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear…

— Marty Nemko

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective,…

— Ibn Arabi

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,…

— Sam Levenson

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority…

— Cesar Millan

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American…

— Lee Zeldin

One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of…

— Parker Conrad

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her…

— Michel de Montaigne

For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“Admire ability, experience, and knowledge over fame or wealth. Just because someone is a celebrity, it doesn’t make them an authority. Fame…

— Loren Weisman

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at…

— Leo Tolstoy

Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb…

— Ali Sina

No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,…

— Gene Wolfe

If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million…

— Charlie Kaufman

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

— Robert Spencer

“Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority”

— Ray Palla

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

— Thomas Huxley

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every…

— Erich Fromm

“If the force of arms is considered the only means of authority, it is not an auspicious instrument.”

— Lao Tzu

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

— Tacitus

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

— Stephen Mallinder

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in…

— John Cusack

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

— Lord Acton

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

— David Baker

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

— Billy Graham

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

— Karl Marx

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

— Nigella Lawson

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

— A. C. Benson

“But even I know that in your line of work, there's a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.”

— T.J. Klune